Randal Marlin

"The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it."

"Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions."

"To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the in…"

"Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to ma…"

"Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning."

"Any restrictions to freedom of expression will always open the door to possible others, because analogical reasoning can mount arguments showing why this or that class of objects is closely similar to…"

"If you can show that something is to a person's advantage, they have an attractive reason for doing that thing."

"Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality."